Title

Constrained Quadratic Correlation Filters For Target Detection

Abstract

A method for designing and implementing quadratic correlation filters (QCFs) for shift-invariant target detection in imagery is presented. The QCFs are quadratic classifiers that operate directly on the image data without feature extraction or segmentation. In this sense the QCFs retain the main advantages of conventional linear correlation alters while offering significant improvements in other respects. Not only is more processing required for detection of peaks in the outputs of multiple linear filters but choosing the most suitable among them is an error-prone task. All channels in a QCF work together to optimize the same performance metric and to produce a combined output that leads to considerable simplification of the postprocessing scheme. The QCFs that are developed involve hard constraints on the output of the filter. Inasmuch as this design methodology is indicative of the synthetic discriminant function (SDF) approach for linear filters, the filters that we develop here are referred to as quadratic SDFs (QSDFs). Two methods for designing QSDFs are presented, an efficient architecture for achieving them is discussed, and results from the Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition synthetic aperture radar data set are presented. © 2004 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

1-10-2004

Publication Title

Applied Optics

Volume

43

Issue

2

Number of Pages

304-314

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.43.000304

Socpus ID

0742268529 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0742268529

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